Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff promised to get the “tequila on ice” after Kimi Antonelli narrowly failed to win his first world title in Texas despite a dominant victory in the United States Grand Prix.

The 20-year-old Italian will now almost certainly be crowned the sport’s youngest ever world champion in Mexico City next weekend instead.

Antonelli needs only two points at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez – ninth or better – to be sure of securing the title. But even if he fails to score next Sunday, it would still require one of Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton or Mercedes’s George Russell to win the Mexican race to deny him.…